Answer to Trump Social Ban and Parler Removal "De-centralization"? - Ben Swann

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[–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Bitcoin? More evidence that modern programmers are morons. The blockchain makes sense for cryptocurrencies but not for much else. Certainly not for content. The best examples of decentralization are the internet and the web. These are the models that should be used for decentralized social media.

[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Check out IPFS, Odysee, Hive, Althea, among many others. Real social media platforms and decentralized tech are being built on blockchain technology.

[–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I am not surprised. Nothing that modern programmers do makes any sense.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There's dollar signs in everyone's eyes to the point where the crypto revolution has essentially failed. Freeing commerce turned into let's get rich from some shitcoin.

[–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Monero is the only crypto that makes any sense. But the Bitcoin guy deserves credit for getting this started.

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    [–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Sure. Have a standard open peer-to-peer protocol so that social sites can exchange data. This protocol should have a map-reduce call for search across the net. And it should have a download-all call to get all the data from one server so that servers can be forked. No need to duplicate all data all over like a blockchain.

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      [–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I don't know how mastodon works. I only looked at it as a user, and I wasn't impressed.

      Unlike with financial transactions, data verification isn't needed for content.

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        [–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

        I am basing my comment on the original web where websites were small and static. That was decentralized. Modern interactive websites are not really what the web was originally designed for.

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          [–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

          You seem to be redefining "decentralization" as "replicated decentralization". The old web was decentralized enough to solve the problem of censorship because anyone could publish a website.